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Taking the GMAT Exam in Cape Town
Table of Contents: Who administers the GMAT test? What does the test center look like? Where are the test centers located? Test center holidays Top MBA programs in the area Tips Test Day FAQs About ¾ of the way through your extensive GMAT prep you should begin to...
Taking the GMAT Exam in Las Vegas
Table of Contents: Who administers the GMAT test? What does the test center look like? Where are the test centers located? Test center holidays Top MBA programs in the area Tips Test Day FAQs About ¾ of the way through your extensive GMAT prep you should begin to...
Taking the GMAT Exam in San Francisco
Table of Contents: Who administers the GMAT test? What does the test center look like? Where are the test centers located? Test center holidays Top MBA programs in the area Tips Test Day FAQs About ¾ of the way through your extensive GMAT prep you should begin to...
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Intro to GMAT Data Sufficiency- All you’ll need to know
By: Apex GMAT Contributor: Altea Sulollari Date: 20th April 2021 As a GMAT test-taker, you are probably familiar with data sufficiency problems. These are one of the two question types that you will come across in the GMAT quant section, and you will find up to 10 of...
GMAT Percentage Problem – Unemployment Rate – Multiple Solution Paths
GMAT Percentage Problems Hey guys, GMAT Percentage problem/s are commonplace on the GMAT and today we're going to take a look at one that is straightforward but could very easily get you caught up with the math. In this problem, notice that there's the word...
GMAT Factorial Problem: Estimation & Scenario Solution
GMAT Factorial Introduction Factorials and divisibility, together. Two mathematical kids from opposite sides of the tracks, they come together and fall in love and they create this problem. Here we're asked what numbers might divide some new number 20 factorial plus...
Ace GMAT Data Sufficiency Questions with this Science Fair Problem
Data Sufficiency Problem Video Transcript Introduction to Data Sufficiency Hey guys! Today we're looking at the Science Fair Problem. In this Data Sufficiency, we're being asked how many, discrete number, of the 900 students at the school attended all three days. And...
Consecutive Integers and Data Sufficiency (Avoiding Algebra)
By: Rich Zwelling (Apex GMAT Instructor) Date: 25 March 2021 Last time, we left off with the following GMAT Official Guide problem, which tackles the Number Theory property of consecutive integers. Try the problem out, if you haven’t already, then we’ll get into the...
Standard Deviation Problem On The GMAT (Normative Distribution)
Standard Deviation 700+ Tips Hey guys! Today, we're going to take a look at a standard deviation problem. And standard deviation is a concept that only comes up infrequently on the GMAT. So it's more important to have a basic understanding of the concepts associated...
Consecutive Integers (plus more on Odds and Evens)
By: Rich Zwelling, Apex GMAT Instructor Date: 23rd March, 2021 In our last post, we left you with a GMAT Official Guide Data Sufficiency problem to tackle regarding Odd/Even Number Theory. Here it is, if you didn’t get a chance to do it before: If x and y are...
Odds and Ends (…or Evens)
https://focustutoring.com/gmat-blog/gmat-odds-and-evens/By: Rich Zwelling, Apex GMAT Instructor Date: 18th March, 2021 Last time, we signed off with an Official Guide GMAT problem that provided a nice segue into Number Theory, specifically today’s topic of GMAT Odds...
Sequence Problem on the GMAT
Key Information to Know About Sequences Hey guys! When we see sequences on the GMAT whether in the problem solving or the data sufficiency section they have two important characteristics. One is how they work, the other is anchoring the sequence to a particular set of...
GMAT Ratio Problem – Mr. Smiths Class
GMAT Ratio DS Problem Expressing Different Notations Hey guys! Expressing different notations is often challenging when you're first starting out on the GMAT and by different notations mean percentages fractions decimals ratios. We learn all these separately and we...
Independent vs. Dependent Probability
By: Rich Zwelling, Apex GMAT Instructor Date: 8th March, 2021 Independent vs. Dependent Probability As promised last time, we’ll return to some strict GMAT probability today. Specifically, we’ll discuss the difference between independent and dependent probability....
Combinations with Restrictions
By: Rich Zwelling, Apex GMAT Instructor Date: 4th March, 2021 In our previous post, we discussed how GMAT combinatorics problems can involve subtracting out restrictions. However, we discussed only PERMUTATIONS and not COMBINATIONS. Today, we’ll take a look at how the...
Permutations with Restrictions
By: Rich Zwelling, Apex GMAT Instructor Date: 2nd March, 2021 So far, we’ve covered the basics of GMAT combinatorics, the difference between permutations and combinations, some basic permutation and combination math, and permutations with repeat elements. Now, we’ll...
5 Takeaways from a Successful EA Journey
Each client that contacts us is in a different stage of their Executive Assessment prep, but a universal constant is that each is striving for a great 165+ EA score. The threshold difficulty standing in their way is the lack of a proper mindset, which in turn can lead...
What Happens When Permutations Have Repeat Elements?
As promised in the last post, today we’ll discuss what happens when we have a PERMUTATIONS situation with repeat elements. What does this mean exactly? Well, let’s return to the basic example in our intro post on GMAT combinatorics: If we have five distinct paintings,...
An Intro to Combination Math
Last time, we looked at the following GMAT combinatorics practice problem, which gives itself away as a PERMUTATION problem because it’s concerned with “orderings,” and thus we care about the order in which items appear: At a cheese tasting, a chef is to present some...
A Continuation of Permutation Math
Review of Example From Last Post Last time, when we started our discussion of GMAT Combinatorics, we gave a brief example of GMAT permutations in which we had five paintings and asked how many arrangements could be made on a wall with those paintings. As it turns out,...
Data Sufficiency: Area of a Triangle Problem
Hey guys! Today we're checking out a geometry Data Sufficiency problem asking for the area of a triangle, and while the ask might seem straightforward, it's very easy to get caught up in the introduced information on this problem. And this is a great example of a way...
Triangles With Other Shapes
As discussed before, now that we’ve talked about the basic triangles, we can start looking at how the GMAT can make problems difficult by embedding triangles in other figures, or vice versa. Here are just a few examples, which include triangles within and outside of...
Triangle Inequality Rule
One of the less-common but still need-to-know rules tested on the GMAT is the “triangle inequality” rule, which allows you to draw conclusions about the length of the third side of a triangle given information about the lengths of the other two sides. Often times,...
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